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WINTHROP M. BAKER,VOF VALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

'DISPLAY-STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 605,622, dated June 14, 1898.

l Application led May 12, 1897- Serial No. 636,135. (No model.)

' of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. 1

It is now largely the custom for drug stores and the like which carry a select line of candies to obtain them from a ,maker of wide reputation and to label and advertise them in connection with his name. Therefore it becomes the concern of the maker equally with that of the seller to insure the attractive display and the preservation of the stock.

To effect these objects, display-stands have been employed.' In general form such stands have been constructed -to slope from front to rear in a series of ascending steps or platforms on which have been rested shallow trays or which in some cases have been formed with raised edges, so as in themselves to serve as trays. On each such tray it has been customary to arrange in a single layer that portion of a particular kind of candy .which is to be displayed and to remain undisturbed. The rear of the box has been made open to allow the insertion into the space beneath the ascending steps of large boxes or trays containing the bulk of the stock and designed to be drawn from in making sales.

My invention consists in an improved display-stand oflight, simple, and inexpensive constructionvand having a large capacity for stock without crowding, the same being constructed to support a series ofv display-trays and enable the latter to be removed and replaced without disturbing or reaching over the stand, and it being provided with means to indicate the order in which such displaytrays should be disposed.

\ In the first place my invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which I have represented the best embodiment thereof which I have yet contrived, after which the distinguishing characteristics of the invention will be particularly pointed out, and distinctly dened in the claim at the close of this specification.

Figure 1 is a middle vertical section of myv stand with its full quota of trays inserted.

Fig. 2 is an isometric view of the stand with the trays removed.

1 is the rectangular bottom piece of the stand. 2 2 are the side pieces attached thereto and preferably having their top edges shaped in a series of steps descending toward the front.k 33 are verticall cross-pieces uniting said side pieces in front of the respective steps. 4 is a similar narrower cross-piece at the lower front edge of the stand.

5 is a horizontal shelf or top piece at the upper rear edge of thestand designed for displaying fancy boxes or the like;

6 6 are panels 4on the cross-pieces 3 3, on which will be printed or lettered, as shownin Fig. 2, the designation of the candy that is displayed in the tray directly beneath.

7 '7 are horizontal strips aiixed to the interior faces of the side pieces 2 2 and serving as slideways for the trays. These slideways are in pairs, one pair above another at verof the steps, and each pair is placed at, say,

a quarter of an inch below the edges of side pieces 2 2 at the correspondingstep, as shown most clearly in Fig. l, so that when one of the display-trays 8 8 rests upon a given pair of slideways it will be retained from passing too far forward and also from lateral displacement by the upwardly-projecting edges of the cross-piece 3 and side pieces 2 2, but maybe removed by being drawn'rearward.

9 9 are the stock trays or boxes resting onthe slideways within the stand. The dimensionsof the steps of the stand are so proportioned as to height that a stock tray orbox restingl on one pair of slideways will just run easily between that and the pair of slideways next above, andso proportioned as to length that a stock tray or box when pushed fully*v forward will pass below the display-tray next above. By this arrangement I enable stocktrays to be placed as desired on the slideways, and it will be perceived that each pair of slideways has greater capacity for the reception of stock trays or boxes than the pair next above, this enabling a progressive increase from the top downward in the number of trays which may be placed on the respective pairs of slideways. Each tray is provided with a pull 10, which serves as a han- IOO dle by means of which to draw out the tray from the rear when desired.

In the use of my stand it will be placed suitably in a show-case or on a counter and need not thereafter be disturbed. This feature is of great convenience, for if it were necessary, as it is with the stands at present in use, to remove the Whole stand when it is sought to replenish it, or even if it were neeessary to reach in over it or around it in replacing the contents of the display-trays, the danger of disarranging, upsetting, or injuring other articles adjacent to the stand, as well as the probability of mashing or disarranging the contents of the trays, would seriously impair the usefulness of the stand.

In the case of a stand embodying my present invention all the display-trays, as well as the stock trays or boxes, may be replaced by reaching in through the rear of the stand with absolute safety and ease and without touching their contents.

It is essential in the construction of a display-stand that the displayed candy shallnot appear to be crowded, for such crowding would destroy its attractive appearance; but it is no less necessary that the largest possible stock should be accommodated in the limited space which the retailer can give to it. By my improved construction and arrangement I produce a display-stand in which every portion of the irregularinterior is utilized to receive regular-shaped stock-trays, so that, for instance, one of my stands eight inches wide and twenty-three inches long will hold sixteen or seventeen pounds of candy.

The inviting appearance of the display is greatly heightened by a careful disposition of the contents of each of the respective display-trays with reference to the contents of each of the other trays. Many retailers, however, Would lack the artistic sense which the makers very business cultivates in him and would fail to arrange the display as most desirable. To obviate this difficulty, I employ the fixed lettered pannels, already referred to, which serve to indicate what the contents of each tray should comprise. Thus, as shown in Fig. 2, the order might be (from the top downward) ,Parisians, Jellies, Josephines, Nougatines The panels being lettered before the stand leaves the makers hands, the attractive arrangement of the display, both at first and when it is replenished, is assured.

lVhat I claim is- A display-stand having a stepped series of horizontal slideways, vertical cross-pieces respectively located at and below the front ends of the respective steps and adapted to receive designation-bearing panels, the forward portions of each pair of slideways projecting out ward beyond the forward ends and crosspiece of the pair of slideways next above, stock-containing trays sliding upon the rearward portions of said slideways behind the said cross-pieces, and display-trays resting upon said projecting portions of the said slideways in front of the cross-pieces and movable beneath said cross-pieces as well as movable rearward and forward upon the said slideways to permit of withdrawal or inser tion from the rear after the removal of the stock-containing trays, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VINTIIROP M. BAKER.

Witnesses LEPINE IIALL RICE, OscAR F. HILL. 

